Mark Leslie (author)

Mark Leslie (born 1969) is a Canadian author of horror and speculative fiction.[1] He is the author of the short story collection One Hand Screaming (2004),[2] a collection of short stories and poetry, mostly in the horror genre, the horror novel I, Death, (2014)[3] the thriller Evasion (2014)[4] and the editor of the science fiction anthology North of Infinity II (2006)[5] and horror anthology Campus Chills (2009).[6] Leslie is also the author of Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers (2012), Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie & Unexplained (2013)(co-authored with Jenny Jelen)[7][8][9] and Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries (2014)[10]

Born and raised in Onaping Falls,[11] Leslie currently resides in Hamilton, Ontario.[12]

Books

Fiction

  • One Hand Screaming (2004), Stark Publishing
  • North of Infinity II (Editor) (2006), Mosaic Press
  • Campus Chills (Editor) (2009), Stark Publishing
  • Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (Editor) (2012), Edge Publishing
  • I, Death (2014), Atomic Fez (2016) Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing
  • Evasion (2015), Stark Publishing
  • A Canadian Werewolf in New York, (2017) Stark Publishing
  • Fiction River: Editor's Choice (Editor), (2017), WMG Publishing
  • Fiction River: Feel the Fear (Editor), (2017), WMG Publishing

Non-Fiction

  • Haunted Hamilton: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle & Other Steeltown Shivers (2012), Dundurn
  • Spooky Sudbury: True Tales of the Eerie & Unexplained (co-author Jenny Jelen) (2013), Dundurn
  • Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores & Libraries (2014), Dundurn
  • Creepy Capital: Ghost Stories of Ottawa and the National Capital Region (2016), Dundurn
  • Haunted Hospitals: Eerie Tales About Hospitals, Sanatoriums, and Other Institutions (co-author Rhonda Parrish) (2017), Dundurn

Awards

  • Short story "Erratic Cycles" (Parsec Magazine Winter 1998-1999) was nominated in category of Best short-form work in English 2000[13]
  • Haunted Hamilton was short-listed in Non-Fiction for the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Awards 2013[14]

Notes

  1. ↑ Mark Leslie listing at Internet Speculative Fiction database
  2. ↑ One Hand Screaming entry at Bookfinder.com
  3. ↑ I Death Catalog Listing at Atmoic Fez
  4. ↑ Evasion listing at Goodreads
  5. ↑ Canadian SF Works, 2006 publications
  6. ↑ Google Books Bibliographic Information
  7. ↑ Mark Leslie's Author Page at Dundurn
  8. ↑ Dundurn Page for Spooky Sudbury
  9. ↑ "Levack-born author digs into area hauntings". Sudbury Star, March 23, 2013.
  10. ↑ Tomes of Terror listing in Dundurn's Catalog
  11. ↑ "Sudbury authors have big imaginations". Sudbury Star, October 4, 2012.
  12. ↑ Hamilton Writer's Index
  13. ↑ Science Fiction Awards Database http://www.sfadb.com/db/Mark_Leslie. Retrieved 7 August 2017. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ↑ "Hamilton Arts Council Blog". Hamilton Arts Council.


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